Hardcover Nonfiction

by Richard Tregaskis · Random House

The story follows one squad of Marines through the bloody assaults on the Solomon Islands during the opening stages of the war in the South Pacific.

by Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough · Dodd, Mead

by Quentin Reynolds · Random House

Quentin Reynolds gets himself attached to the Dieppe raid (August 19, 1942) and tells us the story. The events of the book span only a few days, but Reynolds takes us on diversions ranging from a long excerpt of one of his Colliers pieces telling us why it's too early to open a second front to the miracle of plastic surgery.

by John T. Whitaker · Macmillan

Events leading up to the second World War, from 1934 on.

by Harry Emerson Fosdick · Harper

"In the popular mind, Dr. Fosdick stands as a great American preacher and pastor of Riverside Church, New York. What is generally unknown—and what makes this volume so exciting—is that for twenty years he has been consulted by thousands of persons, concerned by thousands of persons, concerned with problems that for the most part have no relation whatever to religion. Thousands more have written to him for help on all sorts of personal problems as a result of his fifteen years of week-by-week broadcasts. Now out of this vast experience comes this book, unquestionably of greater appeal to the general reader than anything Dr. Fosdick has written. While it promises no short, easy road to personal well-being, this book will help any intelligent person to get a better hold on himself. It shows how best to deal with fear and anxiety, how to master depression and how to handle one's "mischievous conscience." The book starts with a clear, fresh discussion of how a person can and must learn to accept himself as he is. An honest appraisal of personal strength and weakness leads to an understanding of what one may do to improve his methods of getting along with himself and with other people. The book closes with an equally clear and practical discussion of what Dr. Fosdick calls "The Principle of Released Power." Here is help on what man wants most to know: How may I draw strength from those spiritual forces which will give more meaning to my life and more power to carry it through?"-Publisher.